Well, I have a lot of things, and with power supplies, and the kinds of
plugs with the chargers i have you can't fit all of them on one supply,
but I'm not worrying about it.  My mother has been on me to get organized,
so here I am.  She just wonders why I ave so many radios,but that is part
of being a ham, and after all the hard work in studying.





On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Colin McDonald wrote:

> Your mother sounds like mine used to be when i was at home...a little
> paranoid about all the wires and things plugged in...i guess if i had snap
> tied all wires together in a neat bundle, plugged everything into power bars
> and created a true fire hazard, she probably wouldn't have complained...but,
> having all wires separated, and wall warts plugged in as many different
> circuits as possible, it looked, to someone who doesn't know better, like it
> could be potential for explosion hi hi.
> I think those chargers when not plugged in take such a minuscule amount of
> power that you would have to have literally hundreds plugged in to even
> register anything on the power bill, and even then, the amount would be
> pennies.  Even if they were all in use, the actual drain is pretty low.
> This kind of thinking goes hand in hand with the idea that keeping the heat
> off in the winter in your car saves on gas....totally unrelated, but can
> make sense to someone who doesn't know better.
> If she puts up a big fuss, ask her to unplug all her appliances when not in
> use, all household consumer electronics have a transformer of some kind in
> them, and are doing the same as your chargers when not actually turned on.
> I found this to be "different" somehow when i was at home lol.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 7:39 AM
> Subject: battery charger questions
>
>
> > Hi  everyone, over the weekend my mother asked me to unplug the various
> > battery chargers I have when they are not charging anything because of the
> > fact that it would waste electricity.  The ones I have in use mainly are
> > for the THF6A, and my Trekker GPS and a couple of scanners, and I just
> > keep them plugged into the various power  supplies so I know where they
> are
> > all the time, but I didn't think they'd be wasting electricity when not in
> > use?  I'm not to worried about it, for now, but if anyone knows for sure
> > let me know, and thanks in advance.
> >
>